{"id":3345,"date":"2010-09-17T01:14:31","date_gmt":"2010-09-17T08:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/?p=3345"},"modified":"2010-09-17T01:14:31","modified_gmt":"2010-09-17T08:14:31","slug":"pirates-cruise-ships-johnny-depp-talk-like-a-pirate-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=3345","title":{"rendered":"Aye, It's Talk-Like-A-Pirate Time!"},"content":{"rendered":"

In my youth, my only association with pirates was seeing Captain Hook in the Disney movie Peter Pan, and I didn’t care much for either Hook or Peter, the geek who flew around in tights. So here I am, x years later, trapped in a world of pirates.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Two of my three children are eagerly anticipating Sunday, or “International Talk Like A Pirate Day<\/a>” (every September 19). I should add these are adult children. My wife, who has one eye so sensitive to light she should be wearing a patch over it, has a mild obsession (oxymoron) with Jimmy Buffett<\/a>, who sings about pirates when he isn’t singing about margaritas.<\/p>\n

Whose idea do you think THAT picture on the right was? The phone conversation between mother and sons on Sunday will be of a world with which I am unfamiliar.<\/p>\n

And, my next-door neighbor, a great guy of unbelievable skills, has a hook where one of his hands used to be and he has my never-ending admiration. It’s just that he reminds me \u2014 and my granddaughter \u2014 of the Captain.<\/p>\n

And now this.<\/p>\n

A survey commissioned by the Passenger Shipping Association of Britain<\/a> wanted cruise ship passengers to identify which celebrity they would most like to share a cabin with (after their spouse or partner, of course) and half of them \u2014 we are assuming “them” are female passengers \u2014 chose Johnny Depp<\/a> and the other half chose Jack Sparrow.<\/p>\n

Okay, I embellish. They actually chose Jack Sparrow for their Captain’s Dinner on the last night of a cruise, but it makes for a better blog because Johnny and Jack are the same person…or pirate.<\/p>\n

The men in the survey chose Jennifer Aniston<\/a>, who could never look like a pirate.<\/p>\n

Where would my vote have gone? Well, as I said, I’m not crazy about pirates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In my youth, my only association with pirates was seeing Captain Hook in the Disney movie Peter Pan, and I didn’t care much for either Hook or Peter, the geek who flew around in tights. So here I am, x years later, trapped in a world of pirates. Two of my three children are eagerly… Continue reading Aye, It's Talk-Like-A-Pirate Time!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,25,15],"tags":[333,204,35,334,335],"class_list":["post-3345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cruise-industry-news","category-people","category-stories","tag-captain-jack-sparrow","tag-cruise-ship-entertainment","tag-cruises","tag-johnny-depp","tag-surveys","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}